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So I saw this photo up on Pinterest. I actually saw it through a friend I was following and one of her friends had Pinned it, I know long string.

Anyway I just had to try it, I love potatoes anyway they are made I love them. My friends like making fun of me and saying its because of what part of the country I am from, well maybe it is 🙂 but bottom line is potatoes are GREAT. It was put under the name of sliced baked potato but I did some research and found out that it’s a Swedish version of roast potatoes with the above name This meal took about 30mins in the oven. Its easy as. I made two I used salt in one and aromat (spiced salt with flavouring) in the other they were both as good. Next time I’ll try and put in some garlic see how it goes.

The last photo is the one that was pinned on pinterest, looks a bit different from mine guess coz the potato was bigger and they cooked for longer. But truth be told it is very hard to get a meal looking like what someone else has posted on the net. I had this with a seared steak and it was quite nice. HAPPY EATING!!

Method

Thinly slice the potato almost all the way through. drizzle with butter, olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake at 220 degrees Celsius for about 40 min. EASY PEASY!!!  HAPPY EATING!!

It’s the beginning of the year again, well Kinda, and almost everyone talks of weight loss. We are told weight loss is a lot about what we eat and that its good to have a healthy snack between meals. Well nuts are one of those  healthy snacks, they’ve got the healthy kind of fat (monosaturated and Omega 3), and they also lower the risk of heart disease and fruits well we all know fruits are good for you. This is a great snack to keep in the office, your back pack or even in a small container in your handbag, so that at least when you’re hungry you don’t have to look for a samosa. The only issue here is that it is VERY easy to over eat this snack, a handful should be enough other wise if you’re watching your calories you will be doing yourself no good, also try and avoid picking on the fruits only because they are sweet. My pal Q is a culprit of this, she always comes to my office asks for a snack, i give her the mix she picks half the fruits 🙂 and two nuts heheh no pun. Anyway  if you’re not watching your calories I guess you can go Nuts 🙂 and eat all you can. ooooh and please use roasted unsalted nuts.

Ingredients

Roasted Cashew nuts

Roasted peanuts

Roasted almonds

Roasted hazel nuts

Roasted macadamias

Sultanas

Raisins

Dried mangoes

Dried papaya

Method

Mix all the ingredients up together. The ratio of nuts: fruits should be 2:1. I like hazel nuts so I always use more of that. How easy is that!!!

 NB: you can find all this dried fruits at Nakumatt in the section where they put baking stuff like decorating flowers, raisins, edible silver balls etc The nuts are also available at Nakumatt

Seeing as it’s a Friday I thought it would be nice to share a cocktail recipe. This is more of a desert I think than an “alcoholic” beverage. Try and take a look at the Amarula website they have quite a number of cocktails up there as well. I used Strawberry ice-cream for this instead of vanilla as recommended because I JUST LOVE strawberries. I also used a lot more strawberries. I used them whole as I love the taste and feel of strawberries that have not been fully pureed. I also had to use frozen ones as I can not find fresh strawberries in Kakuma so I normally buy them fresh, clean them then freeze them my self.  If you like you could puree the strawberries first then add the rest of the ingredients.

Ingredients

• A hand full of strawberries/ about a cup of whole strawberries
• 50 ml  Amarula Cream (you can also use Baileys)
• 1/2 cup strawberry ice cream ( I used Amore)

Method

Blend ingredients and pour into a wine or martini glass. Garnish with a fresh strawberry